Treasury Board directive flies in the face of research on productivity

It is only a matter of time before the Treasury Board's policy will have to be revised, as recruitment and retention challenges intensify. However, some of Canada’s most productive federal public servants will have left by then.

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, pictured on the Hill, announced in December that federal public servants will have to return to the workplace by the end of March two to three days a week.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID NEUFELD

January 16, 2023

Treasury Board President Mona Fortier continues to take grief from public servants and labour leaders who have decried a lack of consultation on the new edict to get employees back to the office by March 2023.

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